Error is always talkative.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.